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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Prologue
Author: Strom Thurmond's America
Author: Joseph CrespinoPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429945486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
"Do not forget that ‘skill and integrity' are the keys to success." This was the last piece of advice on a list Will Thurmond gave his son Strom in 1923. The younger Thurmond would keep the words in mind throughout his long and colorful career as one of the South's last race-baiting demagogues and as a national power broker who, along with Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, was a major figure in modern conservative politics. But as the historian Joseph Crespino demonstrates in Strom Thurmond's America, the late South Carolina senator followed only part of his father's counsel. Political skill was the key to Thurmond's many successes; a consummate opportunist, he had less use for integrity. He was a thoroughgoing racist—he is best remembered today for his twenty-four-hour filibuster in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957—but he fathered an illegitimate black daughter whose existence he did not publicly acknowledge during his lifetime. A onetime Democrat and labor supporter, he switched parties in 1964 and helped to dismantle New Deal protections for working Americans. If Thurmond was a great hypocrite, though, he was also an innovator who saw the future of conservative politics before just about anyone else. As early as the 1950s, he began to forge alliances with Christian Right activists, and he eagerly took up the causes of big business, military spending, and anticommunism. Crespino's adroit, lucid portrait reveals that Thurmond was, in fact, both a segregationist and a Sunbelt conservative. The implications of this insight are vast. Thurmond was not a curiosity from a bygone era, but rather one of the first conservative Republicans we would recognize as such today. Strom Thurmond'sAmerica is about how he made his brand of politics central to American life.
John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War
Author: Richard H. ImmermanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691226830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based reassessment of Dulles's diplomacy, examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, this volume reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles's conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books and Pictures: Manuscript catalog. Manuscript inventories. Picture catalog
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The Record
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Manuscript inventories, Q-Z
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Black Police in America
Author: W. Marvin DulaneyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253210401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Clear, concise, and filled with new materials, the book sets a high standard . . . Scholars in African American, police, and urban history will all be grateful for what is certain to become a fundamental work in their fields." —The Alabama Review "A balanced, perceptive, and readable study." —Kirkus Reviews " . . . easily read and interesting text . . . " —The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) "[This] readable book is bound to explode plenty of myths. . . . This is an important book that is long overdue." —Our Texas, The Spirit of African-American Heritage "There is no better time than now for this electrifying, clear, and much needed volume." —Robert B. Ingram, President, National Conference of Black Mayors "Black Police in America is the most comprehensive and best documented study that I have read on African Americans in law enforcement." —Nudie Eugene Williams, University of Arkansas "Full of fascinating stories and accounts of racism and heroism, as well as photos and charts, this volume fills a void in the study of the African-American experience." —South Carolina Historical Magazine ". . . a fresh and original study and an important contribution to the fields of African American and urban history and criminal justice." —The Journal of American History " . . . an accomplished and wide-ranging comparative analysis of the role of race in the development and operation of police departments in America's nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities." —The Journal of Southern History African Americans demanded "colored police for colored people" for over two centuries. Black Police in America traces the history of African Americans in policing, from the appointment of the first "free men of color" as slave patrollers in 19th-century New Orleans to the advent of black police chiefs in urban centers—and explains the impact of black police officers on race relations, law enforcement, and crime.
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Manuscript inventories, A-P
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Adapting to America
Author: William P. LeahyPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878405053
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives
Author: Chris CookPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136509623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This major new reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archive sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. With a user-friendly layout, the book presents a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers from leading statesmen, backbench politicians, writers, campaigners, diplomats and generals which cover the key aspects of British history since of the end of the Second World War. Compiled by an experienced archivist, this comprehensive, easy-to-use and authoritative guide is an invaluable resource for researchers of modern British history.